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MILLION (Continued from page 2) from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem, helped to underwrite some of the administrative expenses associated with upgrading the university’s Office of Institu tional Advancement in laun ching and conducting the en dowment campaign. According to President Shaw, this broad-based donor support illustrates the commit ment to and confidence in the university among its many con stituents. This base of support also signals the future growth and development potential of the university. Shaw University is a member of the United Negro College Fund, Inc., offering majors in 30 fields of study and granting A.A., B.A., and B.S. degrees. In addition to its program it the Raleigh campus, the university serves students iriseveTal areas of the State of North Carolina through 10 strategically located Centers for Alternative Programs in Education (CAPE). 12BYRS. ( I) Asheville, Fayet teville, High Point, Kannapolis, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, and Wilmington. In addition, there are extremely active CAPE centers in Raleigh’s Central Prison and the Women’s Cor rectional Center. While all of this shows the university’s dedication and adherence to its original mis sion, it does not present Shaw’s more personal and humanistic approach to its students. This is not an institution where an ac cumulated body of knowledge is merely passed on to the next generation of students. One of the first things noticed on the campus is die very caring and supportive atmosphere where students have the opportunity to grow, develop, and achieve i than they ever dreamed any formally graduates rde. By sample, it presents the added characteristics of individual I societal responsihiUty. Dr. lUbert •PM o. fata third year i •djr. ttona men decent quality be Actor Shines In Role As Teacher BY JUDY ANDREWS Many soap opera fans will remember him as police Lt. Ed Hall, a featured player for 17 years on the popular daytime drama “One Life to Live.” Now actor At Freeman, Jr. has assumed a new continuing role as teacher and mentor to drama students in the Howard University College of Fine Arts. Freeman, a veteran of eight Broadway plays and many television appearances, receiv ed an Emmy Award in 187* for outstanding actor in a daytime series. Describing his stint thisyear as artist-in-re,sidence in Howard’s Department of Drama as “splendid misery,” Freeman says he has always wanted to work with students and Just stumbled on die oppor tunity at Howard. “I was doing a play last year at Arena Stage [in Washington, D.C.] and ashed a Mend who happens to teach here if he could show me around the cam pus^’ he says in an interview. “I arrived only to find out that she had scheduled me to do an informal workshop with studenb.” Apparently, during the ses sion several students asked why he couldn’t come back, and before he knew it he had agreed to return this fall. Thinking back on this scene with the students, Freemen smiles, wondering if they had been prompted to beg for his services. The actor is no stranger to academic life. At the urging of his friend, actor Bill Cosby, he returned to school in 1976 and two years later received a master of education degree from the University of I"'""' ... .—Ml——. Massachusetts, the same in stitution Cosby attended. “Cosby said, ‘Go do this!”’ Freeman says with a hearty laugh, explaining that after 30 years, he had to struggle with college entrance examinatons. Working with students in a university setting has taken some adjustments which Freeman, who has worked in professional theater some 30 years, is trying to manage with a smile. During a recent visit, be had student? interrupting him with dCiHNBB about missed rehear* • ‘ p!Siini with ^other instrac tors who didn't want to give on Freeman's production of "A Soldier's nay.” Yet, he says Oat there is no thrill like watching a student finally gets the part right Recently, in Howard Univer sity’s newly renovated ITa Aldridge Theater, Freeman’s “miseries” paid off as he and a cast of students mid peefes sionals presented “A Soldier’s nay,” a story of murder and racism during World War II which was written by Charles Fuller. Freeman played the role of the irascible Sgt. Waters, a part played on the screen by the late Adolph Caesar. Speaking foodly of Caesar, he told a story of twice having almost played this same part on the New York stage and in the Norman Jewison film pro duction of the play. When Caesar needed a two-week rest from the Broadway production, Freeman was asked to step in but declined, and then again he was asked to audition for the film when it seemed Caesar would be unavailable for tne role. In the Howard production. Freeman is also directing, a decision he now jokingly laments as foolhardy. “I don’t think playwrights should direct their own plays and I don’t think actors should direct themselves either,” he stresses. “It makes the proces rather fragmented.” In addition to his work on the university production. Freeman, who has directed for douj stage ana television, aiso teaches a class, “Acting for Television and Film,” on Mon days and hopes to teach some master acting classes next semester. Asked about his own career, which he describes as “somewhat checkered,” he simply says that he is looking into a few things. In the mean time, he is contemplating retirement while happily living on his boat in a little town near Annapolis, Md. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY CALL OR WRITE: DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS P.O. BOX 7103mNCSU*RALEIGH* JVC 27695-7103 OFFERING DEGREES IN: Engineering, Design Computer Science. Textiles. Education, Forestry. Agriculture and Life Sciences. a»ii ^ *m| naftoj mmw« to prepare for the future. SPECIAL FEATURES: mt Carolina Suae University is committed to equality of educa tional opportunity and does not discriminate against applicants, students, or employees based on race, color, national origin, reli gion. sex. age. or handicap. Moreover. North Carolina State Univer sity is open to people of all raoes and actively seeks to promote racial integration by recruiting and enrolling a larger number of black students.
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